President Trump calls the Gaza Strip “a complete mess” and hopes to find an Arab state that can accommodate Gaza’s 1
5 million residents as the region rebuilds.
President Donald Trump is pressing Cairo and Amman to take in large numbers of refugees from the Gaza Strip, suggesting the move could be temporary or permanent.
In a conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday, the president described the war-torn coastal enclave as “a complete mess” and said he hopes Jordan and Egypt will take in the bulk of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million people.
Discussing his phone call with Jordan’s King Abdullah II that same day, Trump said he hopes the monarch will “accept people” into his kingdom.
“I told him, ‘I would love for you to accept more, because I’m looking at the entire Gaza Strip right now and it’s chaos, absolute chaos.’ I would like for him to accept people.” Trump also mentioned his upcoming call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, scheduled for Sunday, saying he had a similar message for Cairo, with the hope of securing refuge for some 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
“I would like for Egypt to accept people,” Trump told reporters.
“We’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just cleared all that out and said, ‘You know, it’s over.'” “Something has to happen.
It’s literally a demolition site, almost everything has been demolished and people are dying there, so I would rather engage with some Arab nations and build housing in a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump continued.
He added that he hopes to see Arab states actively involved in providing a solution for the Palestinians in Gaza so that they “can live in peace for a change.” When asked by reporters whether he expected Jordan and Egypt to host the refugees temporarily or on a long-term basis, Trump responded, “It could be either.” “It could be temporary or long-term,” Trump said.
Last week, NBC News reported that the Trump administration is considering plans to encourage a third state, possibly Indonesia, to temporarily host large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza while the region rebuilds.
Jakarta responded negatively to the report, saying any such move would be “totally unacceptable.”
Published in 01/26/2025 18h15
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